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 :They support Israel and in this case they see Israel's battle with Hizbullah as part of the American- Western fight against radical Islam...
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 :While the historical circumstances may be different, the parallels are obvious. ... Adolph Hitler pub-licly identified Jews as uniquely evil and placed upon them primary responsibility for the ills affecting German society at the time.<ref name ="U.S.: HIGH-PROFILE ">Bill Berkowitz, 'U.S.: HIGH-PROFILE JEWISH AGENCY EMBRACES CHRISTIAN ZIONISTS', ''IPS - Inter Press Service'', 3 January 2008</ref>
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−	[[Yechiel Eckstein]] (born 1951) is a rabbi and president of the [[International Fellowship of Christians and Jews]] (IFCJ) an Israel advocacy organisation Eckstein founded in 1983. He is married to [[Joelle Medina]]. Due to the scale and ambition of the IFCJ's operations Eckstein has been described as the 'shadow welfare minister' in the Israeli media.<ref name ="a new year">Sam Sokol, 'A new year for the IFCJ', ''Jerusalem Post'', 24 September 2014</ref> Eckstein was ordained at the Yeshiva University of New York and holds master's degrees from [[Yeshiva University]] and Columbia University. He serves on the executive committees of the [[Jewish Agency for Israel]] and the [[American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee]].<ref name ="Rabbi Yechiel Z. Eckstein">IFCJ Website [http://www.ifcj.org/site/PageNavigator/eng/about/rabbi_eckstein.html Rabbi Yechiel Z. Eckstein]. Accessed 4 February 2015.</ref> Prior to the founding of the IFCJ Eckstein served as the national co-director of interreligious affairs for the [[Anti-Defamation League]].<ref name ="Rabbi Yechiel Z. Eckstein">IFCJ Website [http://www.ifcj.org/site/PageNavigator/eng/about/rabbi_eckstein.html Rabbi Yechiel Z. Eckstein]. Accessed 4 February 2015.</ref>In 1995, Rabbi Eckstein founded the [[Center for Jewish and Christian Values]] in Washington, D.C.:	+	[[Yechiel Eckstein]] (born 1951) is a rabbi and president of the [[International Fellowship of Christians and Jews]] (IFCJ) an Israel advocacy organisation Eckstein founded in 1983. He is married to [[Joelle Medina]]. Prior to the establishment of the IFCJ in 1983 Eckstein launched [[Operation Independence]] in 1980 which he described as 'an extensive program of Christian tourism and support to Israel... The main aim was to expose them to the Jewish roots of their faith, and it worked. It worked also because these people were much more interest-ed in securing religious freedom than in the fight for civil rights.'<ref name ="Holier than">Peggy Cidor, 'Holier than thou?', ''Jerusalem Post'', 1 August 2008</ref>
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		+	Due to the scale and ambition of the IFCJ's operations Eckstein has been described as the 'shadow welfare minister' in the Israeli media.<ref name ="a new year">Sam Sokol, 'A new year for the IFCJ', ''Jerusalem Post'', 24 September 2014</ref> Eckstein was ordained at the Yeshiva University of New York and holds master's degrees from [[Yeshiva University]] and Columbia University. He serves on the executive committees of the [[Jewish Agency for Israel]] and the [[American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee]].<ref name ="Rabbi Yechiel Z. Eckstein">IFCJ Website [http://www.ifcj.org/site/PageNavigator/eng/about/rabbi_eckstein.html Rabbi Yechiel Z. Eckstein]. Accessed 4 February 2015.</ref> Prior to the founding of the IFCJ Eckstein served as the national co-director of interreligious affairs for the [[Anti-Defamation League]].<ref name ="Rabbi Yechiel Z. Eckstein">IFCJ Website [http://www.ifcj.org/site/PageNavigator/eng/about/rabbi_eckstein.html Rabbi Yechiel Z. Eckstein]. Accessed 4 February 2015.</ref>In 1995, Rabbi Eckstein founded the [[Center for Jewish and Christian Values]] in Washington, D.C.:

	: [the Center] aimed at bringing Christians and Jews together to build a more civil, moral society. The Center, which closed in 1999, included among its leadership such prominent political figures as Senators [[Joseph Lieberman]], [[Dan Coates]], and [[Sam Brownback]].<ref name ="Rabbi Yechiel Z. Eckstein">IFCJ Website [http://www.ifcj.org/site/PageNavigator/eng/about/rabbi_eckstein.html Rabbi Yechiel Z. Eckstein]. Accessed 4 February 2015.</ref>		: [the Center] aimed at bringing Christians and Jews together to build a more civil, moral society. The Center, which closed in 1999, included among its leadership such prominent political figures as Senators [[Joseph Lieberman]], [[Dan Coates]], and [[Sam Brownback]].<ref name ="Rabbi Yechiel Z. Eckstein">IFCJ Website [http://www.ifcj.org/site/PageNavigator/eng/about/rabbi_eckstein.html Rabbi Yechiel Z. Eckstein]. Accessed 4 February 2015.</ref>

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	:Many of the Jews there think that this too will pass, meaning Ahmadinejad and the mullahs. But our feeling is that this is very similar to the situation of Jews in Germany in the 1930s. By the time they realize it's not going to blow over, it'll be too late...<ref name ="Iranian Jews Secretly">Rory Kress, 'Iranian Jews Secretly Escape to Israel', ''Associated Press Online'', 25 December 2007</ref>		:Many of the Jews there think that this too will pass, meaning Ahmadinejad and the mullahs. But our feeling is that this is very similar to the situation of Jews in Germany in the 1930s. By the time they realize it's not going to blow over, it'll be too late...<ref name ="Iranian Jews Secretly">Rory Kress, 'Iranian Jews Secretly Escape to Israel', ''Associated Press Online'', 25 December 2007</ref>
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		+	Eckstein has also compared the situation of the roughly 25,000 Jews living in Iran to that of Jews in Nazi Germany:
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		+	:While the historical circumstances may be different, the parallels are obvious. ... Adolph Hitler pub-licly identified Jews as uniquely evil and placed upon them primary responsibility for the ills affecting German society at the time.<ref name ="U.S.: HIGH-PROFILE ">Bill Berkowitz, 'U.S.: HIGH-PROFILE JEWISH AGENCY EMBRACES CHRISTIAN ZIONISTS', ''IPS - Inter Press Service'', 3 January 2008</ref>

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	:Is this not similar to the situation in Nazi Germany in the late '30s, where they (Jews) also felt they could weather the storm?<ref name ="Christians Bring">Regan E. Doherty, 'Christians Bring Iranian Jews to Israel', ''Associated Press Online'', 22 October 2007</ref>		:Is this not similar to the situation in Nazi Germany in the late '30s, where they (Jews) also felt they could weather the storm?<ref name ="Christians Bring">Regan E. Doherty, 'Christians Bring Iranian Jews to Israel', ''Associated Press Online'', 22 October 2007</ref>
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		+	On another occasion Eckstein remarked:
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		+	:Many of the Jews there think that this too will pass, meaning Ahmadinejad and the mullahs. But our feeling is that this is very similar to the situation of Jews in Germany in the 1930s. By the time they realize it's not going to blow over, it'll be too late...<ref name ="Iranian Jews Secretly">Rory Kress, 'Iranian Jews Secretly Escape to Israel', ''Associated Press Online'', 25 December 2007</ref>

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	He claimed in January 2006 that missiles paraded by the Iranian army in Tehran beared the legends 'Kill the Jews' and 'Kill the Crusaders'.<ref name ="Orthodox">Colleen Slevin, 'Orthodox rabbi meets with evangelicals in Colorado Springs', ''Associated Press International'', 30 January 2006</ref>		He claimed in January 2006 that missiles paraded by the Iranian army in Tehran beared the legends 'Kill the Jews' and 'Kill the Crusaders'.<ref name ="Orthodox">Colleen Slevin, 'Orthodox rabbi meets with evangelicals in Colorado Springs', ''Associated Press International'', 30 January 2006</ref>
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		+	Eckstein has compared Iran to Nazi Germany:
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		+	:Is this not similar to the situation in Nazi Germany in the late '30s, where they (Jews) also felt they could weather the storm?<ref name ="Christians Bring">Regan E. Doherty, 'Christians Bring Iranian Jews to Israel', ''Associated Press Online'', 22 October 2007</ref>

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	:A consistent friend of Israel, friend of the Jewish people, someone who stands up, who stood up for morality, for ethics, for values, for the shared values. He is going to be missed, and I think even the Jewish -- the liberal Jewish community today realizes that he and the evangelical movement are our -- amongst our best friends. And we will miss him. But I think he imparted that value of -- both in terms of solidarity with Israel, the battle against world terrorism.<ref name ="Wildfire in Ocean">Tony Harris, Heidi Collins, Allan Chernoff, Barbara Starr, Brianna Keilar, Chris Lawrence, Rob Marciano, Chad Myers, Veronica de la Cruz, 'Wildfire in Ocean County, New Jersey; Pentagon Identifies Soldiers Killed or Missing in Ambush; Remembering Jerry Falwell', ''CNN'', 16 May 2007</ref>		:A consistent friend of Israel, friend of the Jewish people, someone who stands up, who stood up for morality, for ethics, for values, for the shared values. He is going to be missed, and I think even the Jewish -- the liberal Jewish community today realizes that he and the evangelical movement are our -- amongst our best friends. And we will miss him. But I think he imparted that value of -- both in terms of solidarity with Israel, the battle against world terrorism.<ref name ="Wildfire in Ocean">Tony Harris, Heidi Collins, Allan Chernoff, Barbara Starr, Brianna Keilar, Chris Lawrence, Rob Marciano, Chad Myers, Veronica de la Cruz, 'Wildfire in Ocean County, New Jersey; Pentagon Identifies Soldiers Killed or Missing in Ambush; Remembering Jerry Falwell', ''CNN'', 16 May 2007</ref>
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		+	Eckstein represented the State of Israel at Falwell's funeral in May 2007.<ref name ="Falwell funeral">Gil Hoffman, Jerusalem Post Staff, Etgar Lefkovits, Judy Siegel, 'News in brief', ''Jerusalem Post'', 21 May 2007</ref>

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 Eckstein has stated that he believes that the US-led 'War on Terror' made it easier to develop links between Jews and Christian evangelicals in the United States:
-:After 9/11 and the intifada and the Lebanon war and Iran, the American Jewish community has learned that these people are friendly to Israel and there's no quid pro quo... So the majority of Jews have bracketed the issues that are divisive because the survival of Israel is at stake.<ref name ="Gaining political">Roger Cohen, 'Gaining political clout of biblical proportions?;
+:After 9/11 and the intifada and the Lebanon war and Iran, the American Jewish community has learned that these people are friendly to Israel and there's no quid pro quo... So the majority of Jews have bracketed the issues that are divisive because the survival of Israel is at stake.<ref name ="Gaining political">Roger Cohen, 'Gaining political clout of biblical proportions?; Globalist', ''International Herald Tribune'', 10 February 2007</ref>
 Globalist', ''International Herald Tribune'', 10 February 2007</ref>
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−	[[Yechiel Eckstein]] (born 1951) is a rabbi and president of the [[International Fellowship of Christians and Jews]] (IFCJ) an Israel advocacy organisation Eckstein founded in 1983. Due to the scale and ambition of the IFCJ's operations Eckstein has been described as the 'shadow welfare minister' in the Israeli media.<ref name ="a new year">Sam Sokol, 'A new year for the IFCJ', ''Jerusalem Post'', 24 September 2014</ref> Eckstein was ordained at the Yeshiva University of New York and holds master's degrees from [[Yeshiva University]] and Columbia University. He serves on the executive committees of the [[Jewish Agency for Israel]] and the [[American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee]].<ref name ="Rabbi Yechiel Z. Eckstein">IFCJ Website [http://www.ifcj.org/site/PageNavigator/eng/about/rabbi_eckstein.html Rabbi Yechiel Z. Eckstein]. Accessed 4 February 2015.</ref> Prior to the founding of the IFCJ Eckstein served as the national co-director of interreligious affairs for the [[Anti-Defamation League]].<ref name ="Rabbi Yechiel Z. Eckstein">IFCJ Website [http://www.ifcj.org/site/PageNavigator/eng/about/rabbi_eckstein.html Rabbi Yechiel Z. Eckstein]. Accessed 4 February 2015.</ref>In 1995, Rabbi Eckstein founded the [[Center for Jewish and Christian Values]] in Washington, D.C.:	+	[[Yechiel Eckstein]] (born 1951) is a rabbi and president of the [[International Fellowship of Christians and Jews]] (IFCJ) an Israel advocacy organisation Eckstein founded in 1983. He is married to [[Joelle Medina]]. Due to the scale and ambition of the IFCJ's operations Eckstein has been described as the 'shadow welfare minister' in the Israeli media.<ref name ="a new year">Sam Sokol, 'A new year for the IFCJ', ''Jerusalem Post'', 24 September 2014</ref> Eckstein was ordained at the Yeshiva University of New York and holds master's degrees from [[Yeshiva University]] and Columbia University. He serves on the executive committees of the [[Jewish Agency for Israel]] and the [[American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee]].<ref name ="Rabbi Yechiel Z. Eckstein">IFCJ Website [http://www.ifcj.org/site/PageNavigator/eng/about/rabbi_eckstein.html Rabbi Yechiel Z. Eckstein]. Accessed 4 February 2015.</ref> Prior to the founding of the IFCJ Eckstein served as the national co-director of interreligious affairs for the [[Anti-Defamation League]].<ref name ="Rabbi Yechiel Z. Eckstein">IFCJ Website [http://www.ifcj.org/site/PageNavigator/eng/about/rabbi_eckstein.html Rabbi Yechiel Z. Eckstein]. Accessed 4 February 2015.</ref>In 1995, Rabbi Eckstein founded the [[Center for Jewish and Christian Values]] in Washington, D.C.:

	: [the Center] aimed at bringing Christians and Jews together to build a more civil, moral society. The Center, which closed in 1999, included among its leadership such prominent political figures as Senators [[Joseph Lieberman]], [[Dan Coates]], and [[Sam Brownback]].<ref name ="Rabbi Yechiel Z. Eckstein">IFCJ Website [http://www.ifcj.org/site/PageNavigator/eng/about/rabbi_eckstein.html Rabbi Yechiel Z. Eckstein]. Accessed 4 February 2015.</ref>		: [the Center] aimed at bringing Christians and Jews together to build a more civil, moral society. The Center, which closed in 1999, included among its leadership such prominent political figures as Senators [[Joseph Lieberman]], [[Dan Coates]], and [[Sam Brownback]].<ref name ="Rabbi Yechiel Z. Eckstein">IFCJ Website [http://www.ifcj.org/site/PageNavigator/eng/about/rabbi_eckstein.html Rabbi Yechiel Z. Eckstein]. Accessed 4 February 2015.</ref>

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	:We did a study, a formal study, that found that the primary reason for (evangelicals') support is the shared values of freedom and democracy that Israel has...<ref name ="U.S.-ISRAEL:">Bill Berkowitz, 'U.S.-ISRAEL: A CRISIS OF FAITH OVER CHRISTIAN EVANGELICALS' HELP', ''IPS - Inter Press Service'', 8 September 2006</ref>		:We did a study, a formal study, that found that the primary reason for (evangelicals') support is the shared values of freedom and democracy that Israel has...<ref name ="U.S.-ISRAEL:">Bill Berkowitz, 'U.S.-ISRAEL: A CRISIS OF FAITH OVER CHRISTIAN EVANGELICALS' HELP', ''IPS - Inter Press Service'', 8 September 2006</ref>
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		+	Eckstein has stated that he believes that the US-led 'War on Terror' made it easier to develop links between Jews and Christian evangelicals in the United States:
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		+	:After 9/11 and the intifada and the Lebanon war and Iran, the American Jewish community has learned that these people are friendly to Israel and there's no quid pro quo... So the majority of Jews have bracketed the issues that are divisive because the survival of Israel is at stake.<ref name ="Gaining political">Roger Cohen, 'Gaining political clout of biblical proportions?;
		+	Globalist', ''International Herald Tribune'', 10 February 2007</ref>

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 Eckstein views the promotion of evangelical Christianity worldwide as a means to promote international support for Israel:
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 In February 2006 Eckstein welcomed the opening of new Israeli tourism offices in Rio de Janeiro and Atlanta. He congratulated the Israeli tourism ministry for doing so as part of efforts to increase tourism among evangelical Christians.<ref name ="S. America gets">Hilary Leila Krieger, 'S. America gets Israel tourism office', ''Associated Press International'', 28 February 2006</ref>
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